Rose Godfrey Florida Invasive Species Partnership UF-IFAS School of Forest Resource Conservation The Power of Partnerships Invasive Species Know No Boundaries, Do We?

2001 Invasive Species Working Group Federal & state agencies one strategic plan for prevention and management of all biological invasions in Florida Primarily public lands 2006 Private Land Incentive Group Invasive species management on private lands Promoted partnerships between public land managers, resource managers and private land managers 2008 The Florida Invasive Species Partnership Public and private lands Maintains same partnership focus

Publicly managed areas

To achieve long-term success in managing invasive, non- native species in Florida, private landowners and public land managers must:  Form collaborative relationships with all stakeholders  Focus on comprehensive management, including  Prevention  Early Detection/Rapid Response (EDRR)  Control  Applied Research  Outreach

 Encourage voluntary partnerships to increase effectiveness and decrease costs of comprehensive invasive species management;  Provide tools and resources that enable the development of unified approaches, bridging the gap between private landowners’ and land management agency invasive species efforts; and,  Encourage the development, implementation and sharing of new and/or innovative approaches to address the threat of invasive species.

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Multiple agencies and organizations in partnership Involve private landowners and interests Recognize differences and commonalities in missions Conservation leverage

Visit: FloridaInvasives.org Contact us: Join us the 4 th Wednesday of every month at 1:30pm for the CISMA Monthly Call (Except November and December due to holiday conflicts. Call resume on January 25 th 2012) Go to to join CISMA Listserv